War Films

Wings Paramount Pictures, 1927 (DVD, 2012) John Monk Saunders wrote some classically hokey stories of World War I aviators that found their way onto the big screen in films whose flying sequences tend to be more memorable than the plots....

Although the Germans and the Italians had been defeated, the battle was not over for the United States. The remaining major Axis power was Japan. This video made by the War Department — “Two Down One To Go” — describes in...

(Img: U.S. Navy/National Archives) A 1941 short film titled “Women in Defense.” Produced by the Office of Emergency Management shortly before the United States entered World War II. This video, with commentary written by...

Superman outwits Nazis with Lois Lane in this World War II era cartoon by Paramout in 1943. Superman, the classic American hero, and Lois Lane protect important American documents from the Nazis and a jungle tribe....

The July 2015 issue of Military History features articles about the 1945 Russian invasion of Manchuria and contested islands to the north of Japan, the opening battle of the English Civil War at Edgehill in 1642, the 1945 execution of...

In the movie Patton with George C. Scott, one scene shows Patton reading a book, The Tank in Battle, supposedly written by Erwin Rommel. Did Rommel really write this book or was it a prop? Mark Fallesen ? ? ? Whatever translation the...

IN HIS CLASSIC 1959 book, The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle, philosopher and World War II veteran J. Glenn Gray observed that war is visually fascinating. Director François Truffaut expanded on this thought, arguing that it is...

Lou Reda Productions, Inc., producers of "WWII in HD," "Vietnam in HD," and "Brothers in War," is working on a Vietnam War miniseries featuring "home movies" shot by servicemen in Vietnam and at home....

Pfc. Dan Bullock died at age 15 in 1969 and efforts to recognize the young African-American Marine continue and are highlighted in this Military Times documentary. (Rodney Bryant and Daniel Woolfolk/Military Times)...

Military History Editor Stephen Harding, author of “Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor,” discusses his new book with Military Times Executive Editor Tony Lombardo. ...

There were higher-scoring fighter aces and other hotshot test pilots, but nobody did both quite like Chuck Yeager. Few, if any, individuals are as well-known in the annals of aviation history as Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager. An...

The Rev. James Adams is the only clergyman and the last of just five civilians to have received the Victoria Cross—Britain’s highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. It was a singular honor for a man who spent his life...

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